The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling much of Anatolia and northern Syria during ...

An intriguing group of limestone carvings at the Yazilikaya Rock Temple in Turkey may hold the secret to the afterlife — at least as the people of the Hittite kingdom understood it. The 3,200-year-old ...

A shrine built more than 3000 years ago in what is now Turkey may be a symbolic representation of the cosmos, according to a new interpretation. It has now been suggested that the elite of the Hittite ...

Ramses II enjoyed one of the longest reigns in Egyptian history. He spent more than 65 years on the throne during a period of military and cultural splendor which would win him the title Ramses the ...

Rolling over enemies, the Hittite fleet looked unstoppable when they fought Egypt in the biggest chariot battle ever. A stone relief depicts a chariot crushing an enemy. It was created in the tenth to ...

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III. THE conclusion has been already expressed that the Hittite inscription of the Tarkutimme seal is, in the main, ideographic, and that the phonetic element is supplementary; that, in fact, ...